Reply to SQR Question...

[johng@rmf41.usace.army.mil]

> Greetings!  I am a *VERY* novice SQR developer, my primary contact is out
> for the week, and I have an SQR error (in a production run, of course!) that
> is puzzling me. 
> 
> Background:  Oracle 7.1.3, AIX 3.2   First time running this in Oracle7!
> It's a straight report -- no updates, inserts, deletes.
> 
> Error:  SQR 2500 Error getting INPUT.  
> 
> When I look in the book, it says "The C routine "fgets()" returned an error
> and SQR aborts the program run.".
> 
> What is that supposed to mean, and WHERE do I begin to look?  Or, as I've
> done a couple of times in the past WEEK (since going to Oracle7), do I just
> re-run, and HOPE it corrects itself?  (So far, that has worked on other
> things...)
> 
> TIA....
> 
> Louise
> 
> Louise J Weiler
> Programmer/Analyst
> Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
> Troy, NY 12180-3590
> (518) 276-8446
> johnsl2@rpi.edu

Your program contains one (or more) INPUT commands that expect to read values
from stdin to assign to the variables being input.  If SQR cannot read from
stdin (ie: running in background with no terminal associated, user enters
ctrl-C or ctrl-D or such when prompted, etc.), you'll get this error.

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